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''Lake Pontchartrain Forecast System:'' Built in collaboration with coastal scientists at University of North Carolina, the Lake Pontchartrain Forecast System uses the networks and supercomputers of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative to run numerous on-demand storm surge models. The automated system is used to predict surge levels in New Orleans, and in particular provides information to the Army Corps of Engineers, which uses this data to make decisions about when to close and then reopen the canal gates at 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Street. This system was developed and tested throughout the 2006 Hurricane Season and will be improved and used again in other hurricane seasons.

''“High-Performance Computing: Concepts, Methods and Means”'' : This course, which premiered in the Spring 0072007 semester at LSU, offers an interdisciplinary look at using high-performance computing is the first use of high-definition video over the Internet for distributed classroom instruction in the United States. It is offered for credit through LSU and broadcast to other universities nationally and internationally. This course was developed by CCT Professor Thomas Sterling to address the “graying of the scientific community” by ensuring that more students have the opportunity to learn about high-performance computing.

''HARC co-allocator:'' The Highly-Available Robust Coco-allocator was designed and implemented by Louisiana State University. HARC provides a means for reliably coordinating both computer and network resources internationally. In 2006, HARC was used in the largest worldwide co-allocation demonstration to date. Researchers in the United States and Japan demonstrated "automated" interoperability between network and computing resources in two national Grid computing research test beds -- the first such demonstration of this scale between two countries of new, integrated computing and communication technology that can be used to exponentially enhance next-generation Internet performance.

CCT is also the lead sponsor of the Red Stick International Animation Festival, [Red Stick http://www.redstickfestival.org], an annual event in downtown Baton Rouge that brings together artists, animators, filmmakers, computer scientists and also peopleanimation who just like cartoonsenthusiasts to showcase the latest developments in Louisiana's digital arts and technology sectors, which is leading to economic development for the state and the city.

Red Stick International Animation Festival is sponsored by CCT, Baton Rouge Convention & Visitors Bureau, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, City of Baton Rouge and the Governor’s Office of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, and is hosted by CCT’s Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies, Louisiana Arts & Sciences Museum, the Manship Theatre, the LSU Museum of Art and the Old State Capitol.